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CENTR Avoiding “shark attacks”…

CENTR Avoiding “shark attacks”…. ICANN Cape Town, wwTLD meeting, Cape Town, South Africa November 30, 2004. If you spot a shark…. Stay calm, as sudden movements may attract a shark Swim calmly and rhythmically back to land or boat

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CENTR Avoiding “shark attacks”…

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  1. CENTRAvoiding “shark attacks”… ICANN Cape Town, wwTLD meeting, Cape Town, South Africa November 30, 2004

  2. If you spot a shark… • Stay calm, as sudden movements may attract a shark • Swim calmly and rhythmically back to land or boat • Keep the shark in sight, particularly if you are swimming underwater. In most shark attacks, the victim did not see the shark. Sharks seem to shy away from people who look directly at them • If all else fails, try to look prepared to fight back

  3. What is CENTR? • Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries • Forum for TLD managers • Primarily ccTLDs (but gTLDs ) • Mainly European (but members from 5 continents)

  4. CENTR’s office relocation • From September 1, 2004, CENTR offices are based in Brussels • Main targets of this change: • Closer contacts with the European institutions • Enlarging our role in the Internet industry • Improve the work efficiency

  5. CENTR’s Membership • 3 Members categories • Full Members • Associate Members • Observers • Admission as new Member only with the consent of the simple majority of the Members

  6. CENTR’s Membership

  7. CENTR’s Membership • LITNET NOC Lithuania (.lt) • RESTENA DNS-LU Luxembourg (.lu) • NIC Malta Malta (.mt) • NIC-Mexico Mexico (.mx) • MoldData Moldova (.md) • SIDN Netherlands (.nl) • ISOCNZ New Zealand (.nz) • NORID Norway (.no), Bouvet Is. (.bv), Svalbard & Jan Mayen Is. (.sj) • Palestinian Registry Palestine (.ps) • NASK Poland (.pl) • FCCNPortugal (.pt) • RNC Romania (.ro) • Ros-NIIROS Russia (.ru) • RED.ES Spain (.es); • ARNES Slovenia (.si) • IIS Sweden (.se) • SWITCH Switzerland (.ch), Lichtenstein (.li) • SITA (.aero) • Nominet UK United Kingdom (.uk) • NeuStar United States of America (.us) • VeriSign (.com, .net) • Afilias (.info) • Public Interest Registry (.org) • AFGNIC Afghanistan (.af) • STA Andorra (.ad) • ISOC.AM Armenia (.am) • NIC.AC Ascension Is. (.ac), Diego Garcia (.io), St Helena (.sh) • NIC.AT Austria (.at) • DNS Belgium Belgium (.be) • Digital Systems Bulgaria (.bg) • CIRA Canada (.ca) • CARNet Croatia (.hr) • UCY-DNS Cyprus (.cy) • CZ.NIC Czech Republic (.cz) • DENIC Germany (.de) • FICORA Finland (.fi) • AFNIC France (.fr), Mayotte (.yt), Reunion (.re), St. Pierre & Miquelon (.pm), Wallis & Futuna Is. (.wf ) • GibNet Gibraltar (.gi) • GR-Hostmaster Greece (.gr) • Island Networks Guernsey (.gg), Jersey (.je) • CHIP Hungary (.hu) • IEDR Ireland (.ie) • IPM Iran (.ir); • ISNIC Iceland (.is) • ISOC-IL Israel (.il) • IT-NIC Italy (.it) • JPRS Japan (.jp); • NIC.LY Libya (.ly)

  8. Benefits of diverse participation • CENTR values participation from many different registries • Western and Eastern Europe, Americas, Asia, Oceania • Different regulatory regimes, Internet community expectations, use of domain names etc. • Different challenges is ensuring stable DNS/Internet • Provides added value because • Brings different perspectives to discussion • Helps to define guidelines and best practices that benefit everyone • Comes to agreed opinions on certain aspects of the international arena

  9. Focus on • ccNSO process • IANA functions • ITU-WSIS-WGIG • “eu” implementation plan

  10. Focus on • Risk management • Surveys update • IDNs website • Domain Name Wire

  11. Future Meetings • General Assemblies 2005-2006 • 25th CENTR General Assembly, 22-23 Feb,Brussels, Belgium • 26th CENTR General Assembly, 16-17 June, Trondheim, Norway • 27th CENTR General Assembly, 29-30 Sept, Moscow, Russia • 28th CENTR General Assembly, 21-22 Nov, Amsterdam, Netherlands • 29th CENTR General Assembly, 2-3 March 2006, Brussels, Belgium • 30th CENTR General Assembly, 25-26 May 2006, Madrid, Spain • Workshops • 7th Administrative Workshop, 2005, February 2, 2005, Vienna, Austria • 18th Legal & Regulatory Workshop, February 2, 2005, Vienna, Austria • 13th Technical Workshop, 21 Feb, 2005, Brussels, Belgium

  12. CENTR’s long term vision • Expanding the dialogue among registries, governments and international bodies • Improving the best practices exchange among registries • Making the Internet a reliable, stable and responsible structure • Working close to all the Internet-related organisations • Acknowledging the competences and expertise of each entity to provide the Internet with added values

  13. Questions?

  14. Thanks for your attention Giovanni Seppia CENTR General Manager giovanni@centr.org

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